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In its mission to bridge the digital gender divide in rural India and empower women through digital literacy, Google India and Tata Trusts announced reaching the halfway mark, with 150,000 villages, under its Internet Saathi program.

The latest such scheme is the Swachh Bharat (Grameen), aimed at turning rural India open defecation-free (ODF), which had a deadline of October 2, 2019 but may now be completed six months ahead of schedule.

Kedia is an Indian value investor-cum-entrepreneur, who has been involved in the stock market since he was 19 years old. He and his company, Kedia Securities, are one of the largest non-promoter shareholders in several listed companies.